cuticom
07-26-2007, 5:09 AM
So we've got a pool, which we can no longer use any more, My Dad's too busy with work and Mum's ill, and I really don't have time, I leave when its dark and get back when its dark, since I go to school over an hour away.
Anyway, we've been talking about converting the pool to a fish pond, not a big one, not a heavily stocked one, not even a lightly stocked one LOL. Basically a pond that can pretty much take care of its self. Using the current pumps etc in the pool just for aeration, though I might throw some filter media into the current filter. Then the main filtration will be by plants, Elodea, java moss etc as well as the plants that are only half submerged.
The pool is 75 000l or 20 000g, and the stocking I was thinking of is all of 10 fancy goldfish, or less LOL.
Would this work? as long as we keep up aeration, maybe buy a good air pump (as in the really high powered ones used in septic tanks) to ensure theres plenty of aeration? I've run greenwater ponds with a couple of goldfish and only an airpump before and they've run perfectly. The plants should add at least a bit as well, and with such a small amount of fish, I cant see how aeration would really be a huge problem.
We don't want to get a filter, my Dad doesn't have time to DIY, he won;t let me touch his tools and theres no way we're paying $1000 so we can give my goldies a larger pond to swim in LOL. But I've read about this being done in heavily planted tanks, and i can't see why this wouldn't work in a larger body of water.
Anyway, we've been talking about converting the pool to a fish pond, not a big one, not a heavily stocked one, not even a lightly stocked one LOL. Basically a pond that can pretty much take care of its self. Using the current pumps etc in the pool just for aeration, though I might throw some filter media into the current filter. Then the main filtration will be by plants, Elodea, java moss etc as well as the plants that are only half submerged.
The pool is 75 000l or 20 000g, and the stocking I was thinking of is all of 10 fancy goldfish, or less LOL.
Would this work? as long as we keep up aeration, maybe buy a good air pump (as in the really high powered ones used in septic tanks) to ensure theres plenty of aeration? I've run greenwater ponds with a couple of goldfish and only an airpump before and they've run perfectly. The plants should add at least a bit as well, and with such a small amount of fish, I cant see how aeration would really be a huge problem.
We don't want to get a filter, my Dad doesn't have time to DIY, he won;t let me touch his tools and theres no way we're paying $1000 so we can give my goldies a larger pond to swim in LOL. But I've read about this being done in heavily planted tanks, and i can't see why this wouldn't work in a larger body of water.